Blood & Milk by N.R. Walker

Author:N.R. Walker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, gay
Publisher: N.R. Walker

CHAPTER TWELVE

The grey crowned crane circles overhead, much like a vulture waiting for the last breath to leave the lungs of its next meal. Waiting for the tired and weakened body to be resigned to its fate.

The bird circles above, not silently, but with a mechanical roar. It’s so absurd that the elegant crane would sound like an engine, but the noise belies its grace as it glides through the air.

It has something in its mouth. A stick, I think at first, as we all stand and watch. A crowd has gathered to observe it, though the women quickly usher their children into the safety of their homes.

No, the bird isn’t holding a stick in its mouth. Is it a pen?

Kijani and the new warriors shake their spears at it, threatening it to dare land here.

Then the pen starts to leak, drops of ink fall like rain on the Maasai people. The ink is red, and as a drip splashes my face, I swipe it with my hand. Dark red stains my skin, with a metallic odour, so I put it to my tongue, only to taste it isn’t ink at all.

It’s blood.

As each drop of blood-ink drips from the pen the bird is holding, the drops fall like acid on the people below. Just one drop, hitting men, elders, warriors and the women and children, and they fall to their knees and without a sound, without a fight, they vanish from where they once stood.

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